Announcing the Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone! — Firefox OS is a new mobile operating system built entirely using open web standards. In Firefox OS, HTML5 apps can do “phone things” - they can make the phone vibrate, make a phone call or send a text message.

AMD suffers Q4 loss: A rough end to a rough year — Summary: AMD tumbles to the end of the 2012 fiscal year with yet another poor result for its fourth quarter. — Zack Whittaker — Chipmaker AMD suffered yet another brutal knock to its financials as it came crashing to the end …

A word on cryptography — The cloud storage market is dominated by players that do not take advantage of cryptography beyond HTTPS and server-side encryption. Since we set out to improve this rather dissatisfying situation three days ago, some news outlets have made attempts to dismantle our crypto architecture.

An update to embedded Tweets — Tweets bring you closer to what's happening around the world, from breaking news to global conversations. With embedded Tweets, you can see and interact with Tweets across the web. We often embed Tweets here on our blog to highlight great Tweets …

Etsy Acquires Mixel for Mobile Team — Craft marketplace Etsy has acquired mobile photo app maker Mixel as part of its efforts to beef up native mobile app development. — Mixel launched in November 2011 as a hyped collage creation app for the iPad, and later pivoted to be more of a simple photo manipulation tool for the iPhone.